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6 Tips For Best Usage of Twitter For Blogging Success

2011-10-12T08:24:00.000+05:30

Blogging is all about getting huge readers for your articles on your blog. Twitter is the effective media, if you use it effectively. Twitter has millions and millions of users, most of them use from their mobile device. If you do magic on your article, then you can’t even think of the amount of traffic which Twitter will send to you. Here are some of the tips useful for achieving great success in your blogging career.

Content

First of all your content matters. If your content is attractive and it will solve someone’s problem or motivate someone to achieve something, then that article will be shared on Social Medias like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon and others. So, keep in mind that here also content is king.

Title

Yes, if your title is catchy and attracts one’s eyes, then you will get the traffic easily in Twitter. Do not write boring and lengthy title, use small, accurate and focused title for your posts. Do not use different title for your articles, which are not related to your posts. For example- do not use “here is the complete tips for you about writing quality articles in your blog”. Instead of this write something like “Best Tips to write quality articles in blogs”, which is simple and tells everything about your article and catchy too. Isn’t it?

Timings: Do not write outdated topics in your blogs, which are already finished its era. Yu should include new things in your articles and title also. If you select the old topics to write about, then make it extraordinary and use some of your unique ideas in that. Here I selected the old topic, but isn’t it catchy? Isn’t it got some real tips?

Hashtags

Hashtags are symbolized as “#” before any word in twitter, which means that, if you use #blog in your twitter post, all Twitter users who will search #blog in twitter, will get your tweets. Similarly check which one is latest trend in Twitter and use hashtags accordingly and make sure, it is related to your article and title. This will get more followers for your Twitter profile also.

Twitter Buttons

This is the important step. You should place Twitter button in your blog in a good visible area. Your chance of getting your post tweeted is more when reader finds your button in visible place. Before post and after post is the right place to have the Tweet Button.

If you follow all of these steps, then it will automatically brings you traffic as well as your follower count will also increases. Is there anything I left here? If you find any interesting fact and information about using Twitter effectively for blogging, then please share in the comments field below.

GPU cracks 6 character password in 4 seconds

2011-10-06T20:16:00.000+05:30

An nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, which costs about £30, is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours. Security experts were able to crack a 6 character password in 12 seconds, a 7 character password in less than 5 minutes, and 8 character password in four hours.
"People have worked out that the processing power of graphics cards, due to the architecture of the chips, is more powerful than a normal processor for doing certain tasks," said Neil Lathwood, IT director at UKFast.

Nmap 5.61 TEST2 - IPv6 OS detection Added

2011-10-01T21:56:00.000+05:30

Nmap Added IPv6 OS detection, CPE, 30 more scripts, and more features in latest release Nmap 5.61 TEST2.
Change Log for Nmap 5.61TEST2

Added IPv6 OS detection system! The new system utilizes many tests similar to IPv4, and also some IPv6-specific ones that we found to be particularly effective. And it uses a machine learning approach rather than the static classifier we use for IPv4. We hope to move some of the IPv6 innovations back to our IPv4 system if they work out well. The database is still very small, so please submit anyfingerprints that Nmap gives you to the specified URL (as long asyou are certain that you know what the target system isrunning). Usage and results output are basically the same as withIPv4, but we will soon document the internal mechanisms athttp://nmap.org/book/osdetect.html, just as we have for IPv4. For anexample, try "nmap -6 -O scanme.nmap.org". [David, Luis]
[NSE] Added 3 scripts, bringing the total to 246! You can learnmore about them at http://nmap.org/nsedoc/. Here they are (authorslisted in brackets):

+ lltd-discovery uses the Microsoft LLTD protocol to discover hostson a local network. [Gorjan Petrovski]
+ ssl-google-cert-catalog queries Google's Certificate Catalog forthe SSL certificates retrieved from target hosts. [Vasiliy Kulikov]
+ quake3-info extracts information from a Quake3-like gameserver. [Toni Ruottu]

Improved AIX support for raw scans. This includes some patchesoriginally written by Peter O'Gorman and Florian Schmid. It alsoinvolved various build fixes found necessary on AIX 6.1 and 7.1. Seehttp://nmap.org/book/inst-other-platforms.html. [David]
[NSE] Moved our brute force authentication cracking scripts(*-brute) from the "auth" category into a new "brute"category. Nmap's brute force capabilities have grown tremendously!You can see all 32 of them athttp://nmap.org/nsedoc/categories/brute.html. It isn't clearwhether dns-brute should be in the brute category, so for now itisn't. [Fyodor]
Made the interface gathering loop work on Linux when an interfaceindex is more than two digits in /proc/sys/if_inet6. Joe McEacherntracked down the problem and provided the fix.
[NSE] Fixed a bug in dns.lua: ensure that dns.query() always return two values(status, response) and replaced the workaround in asn-query.nse by the properuse. [Henri]
[NSE] Made irc-info.nse handle the case where the MOTD is missing.Patch by Sebastian Dragomir.

Download Nmap 5.61 TEST2

Samsung Galaxy S II (AT&T) trusted pattern lock Security Bypassed

2011-10-01T21:52:00.000+05:30

Major security flaw found in AT&T's upcoming Samsung Galaxy S II device. Guys at BGR noticed that the information on the upcoming AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S II isn't so safe behind a once trusted pattern lock, and that it can quite simply be bypassed.

All you have to do : Wake the device using the lock key, then let the screen time out, then wake it again with the lock key and you can access all the data.

AT&T's Version of Samsung Galaxy S II is confirmed to have this security flaw, but the Sprint version or other does not suffer from this.Even I just check my own Samsung Galaxy S II (Indian Version), Yeah - ITS SAFE :)

VIDEO DEMO:

SEO : Boosting Your Crawl Rate

2011-09-29T14:46:00.001+05:30

The success of an SEO campaign depends on how fast changes to the website are indexed. This is particularly true when making small changes on websites which already have an established ranking. If the site only gets crawled once every two weeks, this can slow down the process significantly.
Fortunately, there are strategies you can use to increase the crawl rate of your site, as a result increasing your rankings. If you site is regularly crawled, it means more of your pages will appear in the search engine index.

The following are five vital things you could do to help increase the crawl rate of your site.

Increase Your Page-rank:

Links are vital not only for increased rankings, but also for increasing your website’s pagerank. Many search engine crawl patterns are determined by pagerank. Pages with higher PR are usually crawled regularly. However, this is not the sole factor. While building links to your website, there are several other things you need to work on.

Smaller And Faster Pages:

Search engines need to crawl numerous pages, and therefore crawling uses up a lot of resources. If you can decrease the size of your pages and increase the loading speed, you are likely to benefit from deeper and increased crawling.

Servers:

Make sure your server is reliable. You would not want your website to be unavailable when search engines visit. This will have an adverse effect on the frequency of search engine visits and may also lower your rankings because it results in a bad user experience.

Fresh Content

Blogs get indexed very often because they regularly provide a lot of updated content. This offers search engines new content to index every time they visit. If your site has a static page which you would want to remain the same, then you should think of how you can add regularly updated content to the website. You could add new content in the form of news and articles, a twitter feed, latest posts, or any other kind of update.

Duplication

One major issue that many sites deal with is the adverse effects of duplication. This can result in much search engine resources being used up on unnecessary pages, thus leading to ranking and indexation issues. If you are experiencing duplication problems on your website, you need to deal with them as soon as possible.
Implementing these strategies will increase the crawl rate for your site.

Free SEO Report For Your Website

2011-09-27T20:23:00.000+05:30

SEOrush is a one touch resource which provides you a FREE SEO report for your URL or a competitors URL. The report will return On Page SEO and Off Page SEO as well as social presence, indexed pages, validation, meta information, various ranks and standard domain information.

SEOrush is as easy as entering the URL in the search box at the top of the screen and clicking the “Go!” button.
After giving it a few seconds, you will find the SEO results you will need to get an idea of the improvements you need to make.
The report can be beneficial as it may help webmasters improve their sites performance in the SEO aspects, as well as giving the site more exposure and to gain more traffic. It can also be used to research competitors in your niche and how well they are doing in comparison.

Link : SEORUSH

Download Windows 8 Developer Preview

2011-09-27T20:09:00.000+05:30

Microsoft has released its Windows 8 Developer Preview operating system, for PCs and tablets, to the public as a free download.
Microsoft has made available three different versions of Windows 8 for download (two versions built for 64-bit systems which use new processors and can make use of more RAM, versus older 32-bit PCs that use earlier chips and less memory), which all show up as an ISO file when downloaded.

Official Microsoft Download Links:-

Windows Developer Preview with Developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)

Windows Developer Preview without Developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)

Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

Download : Google+ Android Application

2011-09-27T14:37:00.000+05:30

Anroid has lanched "Google +" Android Application for "Google +" Lover .So they can also access Google + from there Android Mobile.This application will work in 2.1 and greater version.Check it’s features.

Features :-

Circles let you share the right things with just the right people.
Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby.
Instant Upload automatically uploads videos and photos to your own private album in the cloud, to make sharing a snap.
Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles.

Download

Angry Birds Shortcut Keys For Windows

2011-09-27T13:27:00.000+05:30

Angry Birds is world most popular game . In this post i have listed some shortcut key of Angry Birds Game. If you want to Download Full Version of Angry Bird Rio Click Here .

Shortcut Keys :-

Scrollwheel – Zoom in
P – Pause
R – Restart the current level
S – Sounds Mute and unmute
Escape – sidebar menu

If you Know More Shortcut key Do Comment.

HTTPS SSL encryption Vulnerable To Crypto Attack

2011-09-25T20:01:00.000+05:30

The secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) encryption protocol, used by millions of websites to secure Web communications via HTTPS, is vulnerable to being decrypted by attackers.

Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser.

Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong say the vulnerability compromises TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0, the encryption mechanism that secures Web sites accessed using HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol). TLS is the successor to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and is widely used at financial sites. Companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, are urging the wider use of TLS on the Web.

The exploit – demonstrated with a tool called BEAST – targets a flaw that could leave transactions open to attack and is being taken seriously by online payments firms.“We have got a team of security people and it is always working on updates and upgrades and they are looking into this already,” a PayPal spokesperson told PC Pro. “The details are still to be revealed, but the security people are trying to get a headstart on making sure this is kept secure."

BEAST requires attackers to gain a man-in-the-middle position. Most of the time this means that they need to be on the same network as their targets so they can intercept browser requests.BEAST has two components. One contains code that must be loaded into the victim's web browser and the second one captures and decrypts HTTPS session cookies. The researchers claim that they can decrypt any secure session cookie in five minutes on average.

50000 WordPress Sites infected with spam

2011-09-23T14:11:00.002+05:30

The attack consists of contacting the domain wplinksforwork.com to get a list of links to be displayed on the compromised sites. However, that domain has been down for the last few days and all the sites compromised. These sites supposed to be compromised. Most of the hacked sites had outdated versions of WordPress installed.

Infected sites have following message at Footer :
Warning: file_get_contents(http://wplinksforwork.com/56132.. 47509328/p.php?host=… failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in ..

BruCON Agnitio workshop Slides and Video Demonstration - Download

2011-09-23T14:09:00.000+05:30

Workshop by David Rook (Security Ninja) at BruCON 2011 in Belgium. You can Download Slide from here.

Required for the Agnitio hands on demos:

A 32bit Windows Operating System (XP or 7 preferably – VM will be fine)
.NET framework 3.5 installed
Agnitio v2.0 installed
Download the Pandemobium Android and iOS source code
Download the selected vulnerable open source application

Optional
In addition to the list above the following things are optional depending on how hands on you want to be:

Internet connection to download an application from the Android market place
Eclipse IDE installed
Android SDK installed
Android Debug Bridge (adb) installed, this should be installed as part of the SDK install
An AVD configured with the Android market place app installed (instructions here)
I think you can also use a rooted Android device if you don’t want to use the emulator

Workshop format

A quick look at static analysis and the strengths and weaknesses of humans and software
What is Agnitio and why do I think checklists are a vital component of security code reviews
Some examples of what can go wrong if you don’t use checklists to find and remove simple flaws
Demos/hands on: using checklists in Agnitio to review source code, produce reports and metrics
Demos/hands on: how to customise your Agnitio installation
A look at mobile (Android and iOS) application security and how analysis is currently done
Demo/hands on: using the mobile specific rule sets in the Agnitio static analysis module
Demo/hands on: downloading an app from the marketplace and decompiling it using Agnitio

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook [Video]

2011-09-21T18:00:00.000+05:30

A bug in the latest version of Skype for iPhone and iPod touch makes its users vulnerable to having their address book stolen just by viewing a specially crafted message, says AppSec Consulting security researcher Phil Purviance.

The problem is made more exploitable by the way Skype uses the embeddable WebKit browser; Skype developers have set the URI scheme for the embedded browser to "file://". This error allows an attacker to access the file system and read any file that the app would be allowed to read by the iOS application sandbox. One file that every iOS application has access to is the user's SQLlite AddressBook database. In a demonstration of the bugs, Phil Purviance, AppSec Consulting security researcher, showed how it was possible to extract the iPhone address book using the vulnerabilities.

Skype is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. “We are working hard to fix this reported issue in our next planned release, which we hope to roll out imminently,” Skype said in a statement.

Simple solution: Don't open text messages in the chat window, and check for a really quick update.

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning

2011-09-20T15:42:00.000+05:30

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning, where an automated message (what I like to call a "Digital Dorothy") warns you in a semi-robotic voice that your computer's security is not up-to-date.

"Attention: this is an automated computer system alert. Your computer protection service is not active. To activate computer protection, and repair your computer, go to [LINK]," says the robotic voice during a prerecorded message.

The offered link takes the most gullible and curious ones to a page that shows the typical "Computer protection inactive. Scanning… Viruses found!" message that is meant to convince them to fork over a decent amount of money - in this case, $19.95 - in order to get the offered protection.Not content with the money, they also ask for their personal information. If you weren't aware of fake anti-virus (also known as scareware) scams like this you might well be worried enough to visit the website referred to in the message, where it will pretend to scan your computer's security.

Blackhat Seo: What is cloaking ?

2011-09-17T21:01:00.000+05:30

There are various Blackhat Seo methods to get high traffic to your website, one of them is cloaking.
Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique used for presentation for different forms of content to various search engines and different presentations to the users. This is a deceptive method for hood winking search engines for the purposes of getting the desired ranks for desired keywords.

When a user requests a particular web page from the site then site responds to the user with the normal web page of the site but when the same request is made by the search engine spiders then instead of the site page another page that has been specially designed for the search engine spiders is returned and the normal site page is hidden from the search engine spiders. Such a page is said to be clocked.

Cloaking is resorted to for the purposes of showing contents based on the request of IP address as well as the user agent HTTP header of the user. A user identifies search engine is exhibited a minutely prepared as well as optimized website for the purposes of ranking for desired keywords. If the user is non-search engine real websites content are shown to them.

The main purpose of cloaking is to hide the code of high ranking pages from visitors and users so that the content cannot be stolen by anybody. And to provide search engine spiders with pages which are highly optimized.

There are certain search engines which consider cloaking as spam and this sort of behaviour is against the edifice of good guidelines. Google webmaster cloaking methods as well as guidelines spell out the following.
• Cloaking for JavaScript – If any user uses enabled JavaScript it is shown one version while if the same user is using turned off JavaScript then it shows another version of a website.
• Header cloaking for HTTP referrer – If any user coming from a particular website they will be presented a cloaked version of a website based on the HTTP referrer.
• Cloaking for IP address – Cloaking system checks the IP address of the requestor. If the IP address of a search engine’s spider, the engine page will return. Cloaking uses IP address delivery, however so do other things such as geographical location for location based content. Cloaking uses IP address delivery, but IP address delivery is not itself cloaking.
• Cloaking for user agent – Based on user agent different versions of websites are delivered. If a search engine determines a script to gain access to a website based on the signature of its user agent it will show its cloak version of the website.
• Header cloaking for HTTP accept-language – It enables to show various language versions of a website without asking the users web browser language.
• Auto redirecting – Auto redirecting is also called as poor man’s cloaking. But it is not cloaking at all. This method is the same page is returning to all requestors, and does not make difference between search engine spiders and people.

Working of Cloaking
Every website contains one or more ordinary web pages. If we want a page to be cloaked in the website then we need to create another page for that particular page and is designed in such a way that it is ranked high in the search engines. If we are taking into consideration more than one search engine then a page is created for each search engine. This is done because every search engine use different algorithms and different criteria for the ranking of the web pages. So pages are designed by taken into consideration these criteria.

The pages designed for search engines are generally different from the normal content page. Sometimes a page ranks high in a particular search engine if it is stuffed with keywords. So such a page is created for the search engines.
Whenever a web page of the site is requested, a programme embedded in the site detects who is making the request. If the request is made by the normal visitor then the normal web page of the site is returned but if the search engine spider is requesting for the web page then the special page designed for search engine is returned. So in this way search engine spiders can never know the normal website page and the normal user can never know the page designed for search engines.
Cloaking is ethical
There are various views of people. Many people think that cloaking is a unethical way for reaching top position in search engine rankings. But this is not true. According to these people it is wrong because search engine is ranking the pages according to what they believe it to be and not according to what it actually is. That idea is purely a matter of principle, and nothing at all to do with ethics.

But it can be considered ethical n the way if the ranking is based on the topic or content the visitors will see the page listed in the search results and by clicking this if they get to the correct result then it is purely ethical. it doesn't matter how the page came to be ranked in that position but what matters is that the end result should be correct and ranking should be based according to the topic.

Cloaking can be used unethically, by sending people to sites and topics that they did not expect to go to when clicking on a listing in the search results, and that is an excellent reason to be against the misuse of cloaking, but it doesn't mean that cloaking is unethical. It just means that, like many other things, it has unethical uses.

Conclusion
Any type of cloaking with fraudulent purposes may result in prohibition of the search engines which makes you cautious when you are utilizing the services. Frequently, search engines hold cloaked pages by frequent visiting of search engines in timely intervals. The holders of the websites who use cloaking for securing their search engine rankings not to be taken unaware sooner or later. Supposing this process is identified web pages may be deleted temporarily or permanently from the list of various search engines.

How to get your computer to have an FBI login screen

2011-09-17T20:45:00.000+05:30

1) Download LogonStudios (It's Vista version but if you have Windows 7 it works)

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I8DIQ2YN

For xp users:

Code:

http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/downloads.asp

2) You can download the FBI file here

Code:

http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/logonstudio_xp/9606/

Code:

http://skins19.wincustomize.com/24/79/2479496/26/9859/preview-26-9859.jpg

Optional
3) The switch user button was annoying me so i downloaded this to remove it.

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8N0EGIW4

Start it up, then open it and it'll do the rest

For the users that want their 'switch user' button back download this:

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AA5V5SFQ

Just run the file and it will return your button. That's it enjoy

What is Black Hat SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

2011-09-17T14:18:00.001+05:30

Before being a successful webmaster you should be master in Seo also. Today let’s know about the introduction about Black-Hat SEO today.

SEO makes use of various techniques that will help you to naturally draw traffic to your site. Professional SEO companies will help you with better content witting which involves the use of relevant keywords as per the content. They also help you to submit the links of your site to various other sites so that you can get back links to your site. If you make use of any SEO company which does its work using ethical techniques then you are sure to get higher and higher in the search engines. The main aim of Search engine Optimization is to get traffic to your website and to convert your visitors into your potential buyers.

Black Hat Search Engine Optimization (Black Hat SEO) as combination of techniques such as sneaky redirects, cloaking and invisible text that are used by SEO persons to get higher rankings in search engines in an unethical manner Black Hat SEO techniques generally break the official SEO rules and regulations. This results in poor user experience.

The various ways of doing Black Hat SEO are:
Keyword stuffing: The excess use of key words in the content is known as Keyword stuffing. In Keyword stuffing same keyword is repeated in the whole content in order to get higher ranks in the search engines.
Invisible Text: This technique is used by sites for which ethics are of no use. In this technique the keywords are made of the same color as the background so that search engine spiders can find them but are not visible to the general visitors.

Doorway pages: This technique is against the ethical SEO rules. Doorway pages are the pages that are can be seen by the search engine spiders but are invisible to the generally visitors. They are used only to get higher rankings in the search engines by tricking them. It is not a good way because it hurts the visitors who visit to the site to see some quality content but what they see is the keyword stuffed pages.

Cloaking: This method is used to cheat the search engines in order to get good ranks ion the search engines. It is done to get good rank for certain keywords. A user identified as search engine is shown a specifically prepared and optimized website with only purpose to rank well for desired keywords. If a user is not a search engine they are presented with the “real” websites content which is often spammed and of lesser quality.
Cloaking is also used to trick users to visit websites based on their description in search engines. For example a user searching for a particular product could click on a website in search engine due to its description and title. The site in question will not be the one described in SERP’s. It can be totally different or irrelevant.

RSS Spamming: Now a day’s many people use their RSS feed in comments instead of their blog’s URL. What it does is that if some visitor only wants to visit your blog to see it but due to RSS spamming he has to subscribe to your feed. By doing this their IP can be black listed from any site in a click.

Black hat SEO is not a good idea. Because Search Engine Spiders can catch you and your site can be banned from various search engine rankings. It may look like a good idea in the initial stages but for the long run it is not good at all.

Black Hat is an unfair mean of practicing SEO because it does not follow the rules and regulations followed by the ethical SEO. Black hat make search engine spiders and general visitors to visit the sites which are having poor content. This gives not a very pleasant experience to the visitors. So Black hat practice should not be used.

Windows 8 Screenshot Tour: Everything You Possibly Want to Know

2011-09-15T14:20:00.000+05:30

Yesterday Microsoft released the first preview release of Windows 8, and we spent all night testing it out and diving into how it all works. Here’s our review, and the normal Convex Coders style screenshot tour, with loads and loads of pictures.
Note: this article was so incredibly long that we broke it up into multiple pages, which isn’t something we do often.

So What’s New in Windows 8?

There’s a ton of new stuff in Windows 8, but the biggest change that you’ll notice right away is the addition of the new tile-based Metro interface, which you can see in the screenshot above. Keep in mind that this is the developer preview release, which means it’s nowhere near finished, and you should definitely not install this on your primary PC.
We’ll go into loads of detail about everything as you read further, but first here’s a quick list of just some of the new features:

Metro Interface – the new default interface in Windows 8, keep reading for everything about this.
Faster Boot Times – Windows 8 will boot much faster than Windows 7, thanks to a partial hibernation mode and a lot of improvements in the loading process. On my old Dell laptop, it boots in less than 10 seconds – on new machines, it’s crazy fast.
Less Memory Usage than Windows 7. That’s right. Microsoft is saying that not only will this version use less RAM than Win7, it also uses less running processes.
Windows Explorer overhauled, now has the Ribbon UI, Revamped File Copying, and ISO mounting.
In-Place PC Refresh will reload Windows in just a couple of clicks, keeping your files intact.
ARM processors are now supported, which will lead to an entirely new class of low-power, battery-efficient tablets.
Hyper-V is now part of Windows – so now you can create virtual machines easily without installing anything extra.
Taskbar can now span multiple monitors – this very simple feature has finally made it into Windows.
Wallpaper can now span multiple monitors – yet another feature that should have been around 10 years ago.
Universal Spell Check across Metro applications.
Windows Live Integration for Sync, Mail, Skydrive lets you sync all your settings across your PCs, including your files, mail, and photos. The sync is available in the preview, but the Skydrive and Mail are not yet.
Windows Store will let you purchase Windows apps all in a single place.
New Task Manager is completely revamped with much better tools, including a way to disable startup applications, track application resource usage over time, and even easily restart Windows Explorer.

There’s way more changes all over the place, and we’ll try and cover as much as possible, but there’s no way we can get everything. Not to mention the fact that this is a preview, so there’s probably a whole lot more coming in the beta.

How Can I Get Windows 8?

First, you’ll want to make sure that your PC can run Windows 8, and thankfully the Windows 8 system requirements are basically the same as Windows 7. You can probably get away with installing this on a PC with lousy specs, but obviously you’ll have a better experience on a faster machine. Here’s the specs:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

The key thing to note is that you don’t need a touch device to install Windows 8. Keyboard and mouse will work just fine.
Just head to dev.windows.com and download the ISO images from the page. Then head to the Microsoft Store page and download the USB/DVD Download Tool, which can put the ISO image onto a bootable flash drive for installation—all you have to do is choose the ISO, choose the drive, and wait for it to finish copying.

The setup process is nearly identical to Windows 7, so we’re not going to go into detail about it here. We’ll assume if you’re installing Windows 8 that you’re not a newb, and as such you shouldn’t need any help clicking through a couple of installer screens.

Various Install Notes:

We were not able to get it working in VMware Workstation or Virtual PC.
If you do want to virtualize, try VirtualBox. Many readers reported luck with this.
You don’t need a product key or a login to download or install Windows 8.
The preview release is supposed to auto-update. There’s no word on when the Beta release will be out, or whether it will automatically upgrade.
The preview release does not have Media Center included. Microsoft says that it will be a part of Windows 8 though.
If you want to disable Metro UI entirely, you can open up the registry editor and change the value of RPEnabled to 0 instead of 1 at the following key: (via NeoWin)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Note that we’re not recommending this, because it makes installing Windows 8 fairly pointless.
If you’re using Internet Explorer from the Metro pane, you’ll notice that Flash doesn’t work. This is actually by design – no plugins in the Metro IE.

Good luck, and make sure to let us know in the comments how you fare.

What’s This Metro Interface All About?

Metro is a tile-based interface focused on being clean and simple, with simple icons and beautiful typography instead of the typical shadows and raised button interfaces that we’re used to. Many tiles are more than just an application launcher, they contain live data that updates automatically—a weather tile will automatically show the latest weather report, a news title will scroll the latest from your feeds, the social widget will show the latest photos from Facebook, and your stock ticker will automatically show you what those greedy Wall Street people are up to.
This interface was first released on Windows Phone, and while it’s definitely ideal for a touchscreen environment, it’s also quite usable with the keyboard and mouse—though you will find that scrolling multiple pages is much more tedious using just the mouse than using a simple swipe on the screen.
Metro Features

Universal Sharing across applications allows applications to easily share files or text with cloud services (and each other). You can load a picture from Facebook into a photo editing app, then share it on Twitter once you’re done. And it’s all hooked into the common file open dialogs, and the new Share feature.
Universal Search allows applications to register with the global search in the Metro interface, so you can search across any application that supports it.
Hardware Acceleration – all Metro applications are automatically hardware accelerated, making the entire experience much more smooth.
Process Suspending – Windows can automatically suspend Metro applications for better battery life when they aren’t being used.
New WindowsRT runtime provides these features to any application in almost any language, with almost no extra code. That means existing applications can be easily modified to connect to social networks without writing any networking code.

To bring up the Metro Start screen when you’re in any other application, just hit the Windows button.

The main Start screen is also a complete replacement for the Windows 7 Taskbar—you can just start typing at any point while viewing the main Metro Start screen and you’ll be able to quickly find any application on your system the same way that you could on Windows 7.
Metro Keyboard Shortcuts
These are a few keyboard shortcuts that I’ve personally been using. There’s others, but I haven’t figured out whether they work for mouse/keyboard mode or only if you’re using a touch screen with a keyboard also connected, so I won’t include them.

Windows+F – Opens File Search
Windows+C – Opens Charms Bar
Windows+I – Opens Settings
Windows+Q – Opens App Search pane
Windows+W – Opens Settings Search app
Windows+Z – Opens App Bar

If you aren’t at the Start screen, all you have to do is hit the Windows key to get back to the screen, and then start typing to launch an application—it’s the same set of keystrokes you would use before, but a different interface.

Back on the main Metro screen, you can easily click and drag to move items around on the screen. If you’re using a touch interface, you can do the same thing with your fingers. You can even zoom out using a Pinch gesture to see all of the items on the screen without having to scroll—as far as we can tell, there’s no way to do that in the mouse-only interface, but if you know how to do that, please leave a comment and tell us how.

If you right-click on a tile you’ll see a check box—if you’re using the touch interface you can nudge the tile up or down…

Which will enable a menu at the bottom of the screen. Depending on what tile you’ve selected, you’ll either get items to make it Larger, Smaller, Uninstall it, Pin it, or Unpin it.

If you were to click on a regular application like Task Manager or the command prompt, you’ also get some extra items like Run as Administrator, which is pretty useful for many system tasks.

Some of the tiles will open up a Metro-style application, which is always full screen. The Weather application can be customized for your location, and you can even pin multiple weather tiles to the home screen for multiple locations.
You might notice the purple bar on the left hand side of the screen—that’s very important. Whenever you’re in a Metro application using a touch interface, you can swipe from the left side to flip between applications. Keep swiping left to cycle through all of the applications. This is roughly the same as using Win+Tab, which works differently in Windows 8 than it did in Windows 7. You can, of course, still use Alt+Tab the way you always did.

If you swipe from the left and then drop the thumbnail into the screen, you can actually dock two separate full-screen applications into the same screen—notice the green line in the middle of the two applications below. On the left is the news feed, and the right is a photo application. You can switch which side of the screen has the “sidebar” application, or switch which application is on either side. What you can’t do, however, is adjust them to be 50/50, it’s a fixed ratio.

Swiping from the right side will pull up another menu, which they call the “Charms” menu. Yes, that’s a very silly name. This allows you to get to various functions like Search, Share, or Settings, and this works across the board in Metro applications. You’ll most likely use this feature most often to search and share from within applications—for instance, if you were viewing a photo and wanted to share it on Facebook, or if you needed to do a search through an application for a file.

If you’re using the keyboard and mouse, you can use the Win+C menu to pull up the same menu, except in the lower left-hand corner. Oddly, you can also move your mouse to the lower left corner of the screen, and the menu will show up—in fact, this works whether you are in the Metro interface or back on the Windows 7 style Taskbar.

Here’s a closer view of the menu:

Keep reading for the rest of the review, including the new Windows 8 Explorer, Task Manager, the new Control Panel, and a bunch more.

Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing by Vivek Ramachandran

2011-09-15T13:27:00.002+05:30

This book will provide a highly technical and in-depth treatment of Wi-Fi security. The emphasis will be to provide the readers with a deep understanding of the principles behind various attacks and not just a quick how-to guide on publicly available tools. We will start our journey with the very basics by dissecting WLAN packet headers with Wireshark, then graduate to the next level by cracking WEP, WPA/WPA2 and then move on to real life challenges like orchestrating Man-in-the-Middle attacks, creating Wi-Fi Honeypots and compromise networks running WPA-Enterprise mechanisms such as PEAP and EAP-TTLS.

Even though touted as a Beginner's Guide, this book has something for everyone - from the kiddies to the Ninjas. You can purchase the book from:
Global: http://www.amazon.com/BackTrack-Wireless-Penetration-Testing-Beginners/dp/1849515581/
India: http://www.packtpub.com/backtrack-5-wireless-penetration-testing-beginners-guide/book

Sample Chapter can be downloaded here:
http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/5580OS-Chapter-6-Attacking-the-Client_0.pdf

Author Bio:
Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book has been into Wireless security research since 2003. He has spoken at conferences such as Blackhat, Defcon and Toorcon on Wireless Security and is the discoverer of the Caffe Latte attack. He also broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema in 2007 publically at Defcon. He was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco's 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was one of the winners of Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He is best known in the hacker community as the founder of SecurityTube.net where he routinely posts videos on Wi-Fi Security, Assembly Language, Exploitation Techniques etc. Vivek's work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada etc. places. This year he is either speaking or training at Blackhat, Defcon, Hacktivity, HITB-ML, Brucon, Derbycon, HashDays, SecurityByte etc.
For those who cannot afford to purchase the book, Vivek's Wireless Megaprimer Video series (12+ hours of HD videos on Wi-Fi Hacking) is the next best thing to it.
You can download the DVD here: http://www.securitytube.net/downloads

uTorrent & BitTorrent Sites Hacked, Spread Security Shield Malware

2011-09-15T13:26:00.002+05:30

Attackers hijacked two popular Torrent websites "bittorrent.com and utorrent.com" and tampered with their download mechanisms, causing visitors trying to obtain file-sharing software to instead receive malware. The site reported on its blog that the attack had occurred at around 04:20 Pacific Daylight Time (11:20 GMT) on Tuesday. Initially, the incursion was also thought to have affected the servers of the main BitTorrent site, but further investigation revealed this site had been unaffected by the attack.

Once installed, Security Shield delivers false reports that a computer is infected with multiple pieces of malware and prompts the user for payment before claiming to disinfect the machine. The attack affected only users who downloaded and installed software from bittorrent.com and utorrent.com during the hour-and-fifty-minute window that the sites were compromised. Those who installed software previously are unaffected.

"We have completed preliminary testing of the malware. Upon installation, a program called ‘Security Shield" launches and pops up warnings that a virus has been detected. It then prompts a user for payment to remove the virus. " experts write on the blog.

It is very important to once more note that infected are only users who have downloaded the software between 4:20 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. Pacific time. If you have previously downloaded it - you can rest assured your software is clean.

THC-HYDRA v7.0 new version released for Download

2011-09-15T13:23:00.000+05:30

THC-HYDRA is a very fast network logon cracker which support many different services. This tool is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system. It was tested to compile cleanly on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris, FreeBSD and OSX.

Official change log:

New main engine for hydra: better performance, flexibility and stability
New option -u – loop around users, not passwords
Option -e now also works with -x and -C
Added RDP module, domain can be passed as argument
Added other_domain option to smb module to test trusted domains
Small enhancement for http and http-proxy module for standard ignoring servers
Lots of bugfixes, especially with many tasks, multiple targets and restore file
Fixes for a few http-form issues
Fix smb module NTLM hash use
Fixed Firebird module deprecated API call
Fixed for dpl4hydra to work on old sed implementations (OS/X …)
Fixed makefile to install dpl4hydra (thx @sitecrea)
Fixed local buffer overflow in debug output function (required -d to be used)
Fixed xhydra running warnings and correct quit action event

Download THC-HYDRA v7.0

Best way to Crack the BIOS password

2011-09-13T18:08:00.000+05:30

There are a lot ways to Crack theBIOSpassword. This is one of them but I would say that this one ismoreeffective than the rest because the rest of the ways does notGuaranteeyou that it will Crack the BIOS password while in this casetheCracking is Guaranteed since in this we will remove thefunctionalityof password protection of the BIOS.

Follow the steps below:
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1) Boot up windows.

2) go to dos-prompt or go to command prompt directly from the windows start up menu.

3) type the command at the prompt: “debug” (without quotes ninja.gif )

4) type the following lines
now exactly as given…….
o 70 10
o 71 20
quit
exit

5) exit from the dos prompt and restart the machine
password protection gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy

PS: I tested this in Award Bios……..

There seems to be some issue regarding display drivers on some machines if this is used. Just reinstall the drivers, Everything will be fine………..

I have not found any other trouble if the codes are used.

To be on safe side, just back up your data.

The use of this code is entirely at ur risk.

It worked fine for me.

SOURCE: My 1st Website

Hack BSNL Broadband for Speed

2011-09-13T18:04:00.000+05:30

If you are a BSNL broadband user, chances are that you are facingfrequent DNS issues. Their DNS servers are just unresponsive. The lookup takes a long duration and many times just time out. The solution?There is small hack on BSNL for this. Use third party DNS serversinstead of BSNL DNS servers or run your own one like djbdns. The easiest options is to use OpenDNS. Just reconfigure your network to use the following DNS servers:

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

Detailed instructions specific to operating system or your BSNL modem are available in the

OpenDNS website itself. After I reconfigured my BSNL modem to use theabove 2 IP addresses, my DNS problems just vanished! Other ‘freebies’that come with OpenDNS are phishing filters and automatic URLcorrection. Even if your service provider’s DNS servers are workingfine, you can still use OpenDNS just for these two specialfeatures.After you hack BSNL DNS servers, you will see a noticeable improvement in your broadband speed.

SOURCE: My 1st Website

How to Spoof Caller ID ? Caller ID Spoofing

2011-09-13T18:01:00.002+05:30

Caller ID spoofing is the act of making the telephone network todisplay any desired (Fake) number on the recipient’s Caller IDdisplay unit instead of the original number. The Caller ID spoofing canmake a call appear to have come from any phone number that the callerwishes.Have you ever wondered how to perform Caller ID spoofing? Read on toknow more information on Caller ID spoofing and find out how it isperformed.
Unlike what most people think, an incoming call may not be from thenumber that is displayed on the Caller ID display unit. Because of thehigh trust that the people have in the Caller ID system, it is possiblefor the caller to easily fool them and make them believe thatthe number displayed on the Caller ID display is real. This is allpossible through Caller ID spoofing.
How to Spoof Caller ID?

You can easily spoof any Caller ID using services like SpoofCard. Inorder to use the spoofcard service, you need to pay in advance andobtain a PIN (Personal Identification Number) which grants accessto make a call using the Caller ID spoofing service. Once you havepurchased the service, you will be given access to login to yourSpoofCard account. To begin with, you need to call the number given bySpoofCard and enter the PIN. Now you will be given access to enter thenumber you wish to call and the number you wish to appear as the CallerID. Once you select the options and initiate the calling process, thecall is bridged and the person on the other end receives your call. Thereceiver would normally assume that the call was coming from adifferent phone number ie: the spoofed number chosen by you - thustricking the receiver into thinking that the call was coming from adifferent individual or organization than the caller’s. In this way itis just a cakewalk to spoof Caller ID and trick the receiver on theother end. Thus you neither need to be a computer expert nor have anytechnical knowledge to perform Caller ID spoofing. For more informationon SpoofCard service visit the following link.

SpoofCard

How Caller ID Spoofing works?

Caller ID spoofing is done through various methods and usingdifferent technologies. The most commonly used technologies to spoofCaller ID is VOIP (Voice Over IP) and PRI (Primary Rate Interface) lines.
Today most VOIP systems provide an option for it’s users to enterwhatever number they want in the calling party field and this number issent out when they make a call. Hence it is easily possible for anyuser to spoof Caller ID provided they have a VOIP system and know howto properly configure it to spoof the Caller ID. However sites like SpoofCard provide an easy and cheap spoofing services for those who aren’t using VOIP systems that they can configure themselves.

Caller ID spoofing is possible and being performed right from thedays Called ID system was introduced. However most people are unawareof the fact that it is possible to spoof Caller ID and make any numberto be displayed on the receiver’s end. In the past, Caller ID spoofingservice was mostly used by telemarketers, collection agencies,law-enforcement officials, and private investigators but today it isavailable to any Internet user who wish to perform Caller ID spoofing.

Is your Nokia Cell Phone Original ?

2011-09-13T18:00:00.000+05:30

Nokia is one of the largest selling phones across the globe.Most ofus own a Nokia phone but are unaware of it’s originality.Are you keento know whether your Nokia mobile phone is original or not? Then youare in the right place and this information is specially meant for you.Your phones IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number confirms your phone’s originality.

Press the following on your mobile *#06# to see your Phone’s IMEI number(serial number).
Then check the 7th and 8th numbers

Phone serial no. x x x x x x ? ? x x x x x x x

IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 02 or 20 this means your cell phone was assembled in Emirates which is very Bad quality

IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 08 or 80 this means your cell phone was manufactured in Germany which is fair quality

IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 01 or 10 this means your cell phone was manufactured in Finland which is very Good

IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 00 this means your cell phone was manufactured in original factory which is the best Mobile Quality

IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 13 this means your cell phone was assembled in Azerbaijan which is very Bad quality and also dangerous for your heal